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Ancient architecture : restored, and improved, by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens exceeding every thing thats extant, exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper-plates and printed on superfine royal paper
Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Langley, T (1702-1751)
[1741]
"N.B. The editor's being at a great expence to compleat the first part... to enable the compleating of the last part, encouragers are humbly desired to pay ... on receiving the first part, and ... on ...
Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste, being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, Woods, Canals, &c. Containing Paling of several Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both close and open, Umbrello's, Alcoves, Grotto's and Grotesque Seats, Hermitages, Triumphal Arches, Temples, Banqueting Houses and Rooms, Rotundo's, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Bridges, Boats, and Cascades, also, An Obelisk or Monument, with Directions where proper to be erected, and the Method how to execute them. The Whole neatly Engrav'd On Fifty Four Copper-Plates. From the designs of Charles Over, architect
Over, Charles; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Fletcher, P Lloyd
MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Braces in imprint. First item in a bound volume of 2 items. Bound with: 2. The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant. / William Halfpenny. London: Robert Sayer, 1756.
A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. With an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c
Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sandby, Paul (1731-1809); Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Rose, Samuel; Kirgate, Thomas (1734?-1810)
MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
Anonymous. By Horace Walpole. Variant: with added titlepage printed in black, red and blue. Bedford Collection copy D501 has black and white engraved frontispiece title page; curiosities added sin...
The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish;... The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, ... By William Pain, Architect and Joiner
Pain, William (1730?-1790?); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1765
The plates are numbered 5-92.